Diogenes

I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?

Diogenes

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Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

Anonymous

The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.

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God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.

Ethel Watts Mumford

Life is the first gift, love is the second.

Marge Piercy

I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.

Isaac Davis, Manhattan (1979)

One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.

C. T. Davis

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

Chinese Proverb

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.

Ed Foreman

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Claudia Black

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.

Thomas Edison

A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.

Bertrand Russell

I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.

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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.

Swami Vivekananda

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Winston Churchill

Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.

Unknown

Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.

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First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.

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John P. Strelecky

Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.

Christy Borgeld

You can't express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them.

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No man can stand on top because he is put there.

H. H. Vreeland

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Eileen Caddy

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Bruce Lee

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Rene Descartes

If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

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Mahatma Gandhi

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Benjamin Franklin

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Frank Outlaw

There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Sanctuary !

Quasimodo, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1939)

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sydney Harris

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

J.S. Knox

Love reminds you that nothing else matters.

Amy Bushell

When the going gets tough the tough get going.

Joseph P. Kennedy

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

Elbert Hubbard

Know thyself.

Socrates

The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

Sigmund Freud

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Winston Churchill

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Margaret Mead

To God, there is no zero. I still exist.

Scott Carey, The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.

Unknown

Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

Berthold Auerbach

Never Quit.

Unknown

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.

Anonymous

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Unknown

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Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.

Anonymous

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Helen Keller

You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.

Golda Meir

Inch by inch, it's a cinch.

Robert H. Schuller

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

Julie Andrews

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

Oprah Winfrey

It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.

Shanghai Lily, Shanghai Express (1932)

Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.

Stephen Covey

Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.

Unknown

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Charles A. Lindbergh

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

E.E. Cummings

When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?

Robert Half

Live with passion.

Anthony Robbins

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

Thomas Edison

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Albert Einstein

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.

Unknown

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.

Bobby Dupea, Waitress (1970)

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.

John Milton

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

Muriel Spark

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

Richard Bach

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

Ovid

Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.

Mingjiao

Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.

Gloria Wandrous, Butterfield 8 (1932)

You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.

David Levesque

Love as much as you can from wherever you are.

Elizabeth Ashley

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Thomas Edward Lawrence

If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man

Aretha Franklin

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy

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Jim Rohn

Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.

Mark Victor Hansen

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Winston Churchill

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

Gorden B. Hinkley

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Thomas Jefferson

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Winston Churchill

Pep without purpose is piffle.

Anonymous

Nothing succeeds like success.

Proverb

Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.

George DeVack

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!

Charles Barkley

One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.

Harvey Mackay

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.

Isaac B. Singer

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.